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Beaulieu knows no limits and no se1f-censorship, and often makes no sense; he offends absolutely everybody-the military, the U.N., the supporters of Aristide-and is capable of talking for five minutes about, say, the inappropri- ateness of putting statues of lions in front of the Ministry of Justice. Beaulieu maintains that he has an audience of three million. ("To listen to us, people buy batteries. For other stations, they wait for the electricity to come back," he says.) The claim is impossible to verifY, but his voice is known all over Port-au- Prince, and his shows are often com- mented on by serious political analysts. I suspect that his popularity stems from the fact that his is the one public forum in Haiti where any sort of discussion is possible, and I also suspect that it's this popularity, and probably his contacts from the Duvalier period, that protects him from repression. I F radio is the preferred medium in Haiti, audiocassettes are the chief means of correspondence, and for the same reason: illiteracy makes writing let- ters impossible for all but a small part of the population. Other Haitians commu- nicate with their émigré relatives (about a million Haitians now live abroad, mainly in the United States, Canada, and France) by sendIng cassettes back and forth, and, as a result, Walkmans are more common than typewriters here, and often the first thing a new emi.grant sends back home is a tape recorder with a few cassettes. It's not surprising, then, that some- one came up with the idea of using cas- settes as a news medium. The man be- THE NEW YORKER, APRIL 19,1993 hind the news-on-cassettes project is Gotson Pierre, a soft-spoken thirty- year-old journalist with twelve years of experience in radio broadcasting. Until 1989, he worked at Radio Soleil, as did Venel Remarais, but they and ten other pro-democratic journalists were fired when the station changed its politics, cutting itself off from anything that smacked of dissent or of liberation the- ology. (Radio Soleil is still on the air, but is very pro- Defacto.) "In 1986-thanks, in great part, to Radio Soleil-we gained a freedom of speech never known before," Gotson told me, explaining how he had come up with the cassette idea. 'We wanted to maintain a channel of communication to the people, and so we had to struggle with whatever means were available." One virtue of the cassettes is that they can be transported to the provinces, where FM signals from Port-au-Prince do not reach, and another is that, unlike radio broadcasts, they can be played at any time and in any place, and the lis- teners can't be detected by the chefs de section-local sheriffs who know no law, and arrest, or even kill, at their whim. Gotson's project, called Nouvèl pou n al pi lwen ("News to go farther"), was started in December, 1989, at the Cen- ter of Research and Action for Develop- ment (CRAD), a Haitian nonprofit orga- nization that gets funding from Canada. The principle is simple: every two weeks a group of journalists produces a cassette with thirty minutes of news, music, and commentary (all in Creole) and makes up to two hundred copies of it on a high-speed semi-professional copying machine. Then the cassette is delivered to some fifty subscribers, residents of Port- au-Prince. Curious to see who listens to those tapes, I looked through the sub- scribers' list: an agronomist, a sales- woman and part-time student, a secondaty- school teacher, a physician, a few priests. Some cassettes are shipped to Canada, to the States, and to the neighboring is- land of Martinique (the Creole spoken there is similar to Haitian Creole), and some are taken by bus to the Dominican Republic, eagerly awaited by Haitian refugees and immigrants there. RougWy a hundred cassettes are distributed through different community organiza- tions and the rest are sold individually (at five gourdes apIece) or are given away when customers cannot afford to pay.